How religious is Sidwell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry - PP here and hit send too soon. What a great opportunity in today’s busy world to sit quietly in the presence of others.

❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are Sidwell parents so hostile and defensive? You'd think being widely acknowledged as among the best would bring some peace of mind.

Correction, the best.
The weekly meeting which is nowhere billed as “compulsory” brings the peace of mind.

Do an anonymous petition please. I haven’t laughed that hard since the pandemic.

What's the anonymous petition that you keep referencing?

Why do Sidwell defenders keep referencing madrasas schools and referencing kids who are outside the Judeo Christian tradition? What is going on at Sidwell that there is this obsession by one or more people on here with specifying Muslim students so often?

And is the weekly Meeting of Worship truly optional for all students??? I've never heard that. My assumption is that teenagers being teenagers, there wouldn't be 600 of them in the worship meeting if it was truly optional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

This is the difference

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No there is not. The community at large is 65% Christian, 32% atheist/agnostic many of whom have affinity for Christian traditions. I haven’t heard anyone complain at all.

What on earth does this mean:

“There is a disconnect between the school's professed values and the values of the student body and especially the parents.”

I can attest to it not being true.

This can't be correct. You're saying that 65% of the students are Christian, 35% are atheist/agnostic (with many of them having an "affinity" for Christian traditions, whatever that means, leaving 3% for everyone else.

Are you saying that no more than 3% of the student body is Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or something else?

That's not true.

I'm guessing that what is true is that no more than 3% of the student body is Quaker (at least at the start), and probably even less. Nearly the entire student body and faculty is compelled to attend worship services of a religion that's not their own. That's remarkable.

And, THIS is the agenda. Any innocent question was answered on pages 1-2

[Anonymous]

Word compulsory, compel etc is not used anywhere.

To the PP above trying to manufacture the hate against a certain group, no one but you used that word. But that’s an interesting parallel. Given that there was consternation around asking what is the problem with the equal education for women, several centuries ago and today?

I was just guessing and fishing by the tone and the agenda. This is very interesting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

Wait a sec. GDS isn't religious and never has been. I just checked their website and theyve been secular from the start.

And what is the Muslim school that you are obsessing over? Why list it first? In all of my time on dcurbanmom, i don't think i've ever seen a discussion of a Muslim school, but it's being brought up repeatedly in this chain by Sidwell parents. That's more concerning than anything else in this chain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

Wait a sec. GDS isn't religious and never has been. I just checked their website and theyve been secular from the start.

And what is the Muslim school that you are obsessing over? Why list it first? In all of my time on dcurbanmom, i don't think i've ever seen a discussion of a Muslim school, but it's being brought up repeatedly in this chain by Sidwell parents. That's more concerning than anything else in this chain.

I should add that it's concerning because it is so wrong to highlight an already vulnerable community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

Wait a sec. GDS isn't religious and never has been. I just checked their website and theyve been secular from the start.

And what is the Muslim school that you are obsessing over? Why list it first? In all of my time on dcurbanmom, i don't think i've ever seen a discussion of a Muslim school, but it's being brought up repeatedly in this chain by Sidwell parents. That's more concerning than anything else in this chain.

Because it’s the most religious by far. It wasn’t listed in isolation. You’re manufacturing outrage but you hooked yourself on a pretty obvious hook. Go cool off and a meeting for worship would do you good

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

Wait a sec. GDS isn't religious and never has been. I just checked their website and theyve been secular from the start.

And what is the Muslim school that you are obsessing over? Why list it first? In all of my time on dcurbanmom, i don't think i've ever seen a discussion of a Muslim school, but it's being brought up repeatedly in this chain by Sidwell parents. That's more concerning than anything else in this chain.

There is a thread upon thread about how ideology impacts the education in GDS. I don’t know if that’s true and I don’t care. I assume it’s manufactured concern outrage and provocation just like anything else related to Big 3 this time of the year

[Anonymous]

BIM is #1 and non-denominational
Just saying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

Wait a sec. GDS isn't religious and never has been. I just checked their website and theyve been secular from the start.

And what is the Muslim school that you are obsessing over? Why list it first? In all of my time on dcurbanmom, i don't think i've ever seen a discussion of a Muslim school, but it's being brought up repeatedly in this chain by Sidwell parents. That's more concerning than anything else in this chain.

I should add that it's concerning because it is so wrong to highlight an already vulnerable community.

I thought you were concerned about the 97% being dragged into a meeting for workshop by the 3%? And asking innocent questions? Oh, I need some Quaker wisdom right about now. You’re really riding my limited reserves of patience and goodwill pretty hard

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the decision week everyone. In which the disgruntled current mothers and competitive prospective mothers throw their proverbial against the wall to see what sticks and moves the WL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest difference I see is that any religious or ideological affiliation does not extend to any education or teaching.

That is not true for:
Madrasas
Jewish Day
Catholic schools
GDS

Or most of the other schools. So I love SFS and delight in its values. And get comfort from the grounding it has.

That’s the difference not point out that there is an assembly room. Or that actual Quakers are few. I have a huge admiration for them; so few and yet such an outsize and positive impact on the world

Wait a sec. GDS isn't religious and never has been. I just checked their website and theyve been secular from the start.

And what is the Muslim school that you are obsessing over? Why list it first? In all of my time on dcurbanmom, i don't think i've ever seen a discussion of a Muslim school, but it's being brought up repeatedly in this chain by Sidwell parents. That's more concerning than anything else in this chain.

Because it’s the most religious by far. It wasn’t listed in isolation. You’re manufacturing outrage but you hooked yourself on a pretty obvious hook. Go cool off and a meeting for worship would do you good

Not listed in isolation, but listed first and referenced in several other posts. Someone also seems to be implying Muslim students.

And a madrasas isn't on anyone's radar as a dcum topic. I truly don't even know if there is one. Upsetting tasty you're highlighting. Makes me wonder what's going on over there.

[Anonymous]

This religious strife is in my top 3 reasons why we're keeping our kids in public school. Sad to see how easily otherwise smart successful people give up their values and family traditions to get bragging rights on where their kids go to school--even long after Obama left the house

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't these types of basic questions be things that come up early on in the school identification process?
People who have been admitted now have the time and access to people and information to get whatever additional questions they have answered in a more direct way (as in no longer needing to use an anonymous forum like DCUM).